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January 28, 2009

Two new studies on ethanol efficiency, GHG emissions

Two new studies have been released recently in peer-reviewed scientific journals, shedding more light on the carbon footprint of biofuels.

“Biofuels,
Land Use Change, and GHG Emissions: Some Unexplored Variables”, published
in Environmental Science and Technology,
studied “indirect land use change” and finds that “there are no real data on
what actually happens as demand increases for land for biofuel production in
one part of the world and potentially leads to land clearing, because it is
impossible to track these relationships in the real world.”

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Two new studies on ethanol efficiency, GHG emissions

Two new studies have been released recently in peer-reviewed scientific journals, shedding more light on the carbon footprint of biofuels.

“Biofuels,
Land Use Change, and GHG Emissions: Some Unexplored Variables”, published
in Environmental Science and Technology,
studied “indirect land use change” and finds that “there are no real data on
what actually happens as demand increases for land for biofuel production in
one part of the world and potentially leads to land clearing, because it is
impossible to track these relationships in the real world.”